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A plan being considered to close Fox Ridge Elementary School, convert it into an early childhood center and move its students to new schools is being rushed by St. Charles District 303 officials and would not only hurt the city but unfairly hurt students and parents, critics say. "They're just...

A New Lenox police investigation into allegations that the president of Providence Catholic High School had "potentially inappropriate material" on his cellphone has closed without criminal charges being filed, police said Friday. The investigation into the Rev. Richard McGrath, 71, stalled after...

The man found guilty earlier this month in the August 2016 stabbing deaths of three people in Sumava Resorts was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A Newton County Superior Court jury Thursday recommended Derrick Cardosi, 25, formerly of Cedar Lake, serve life...

Gary’s Wirt-Emerson School of Visual and Performing Arts will close at the end of the school year and high school students will move to the West Side Leadership Academy.The Bailly Preparatory Academy, at 4821 Georgia St. in the city’s Glen Park section, now an elementary, was named as the site...

Evanston police said Friday that they are questioning a person of interest in the killing of a 20-year-old man who was shot to death after getting into a fight with someone. Police would only say the person they are questioning is a male who was brought into the police station Thursday after police...

Dr. Eric Yang, a surgeon at Hinsdale and La Grange hospitals, has done hundreds of appendectomies, but none like the one did last month. The patient was Ben, a 40-year-old orangutan who lives at Brookfield Zoo. "He is a big animal, 250 pounds and incredibly strong," Yang said.

With only 10 hours left to bid in Highland Park High School's Charity Drive auction Friday, the hottest items weren't the Chicago Bears, Bulls or Blackhawks tickets mixed among the nearly 200 items contributed by donors. The most coveted items — hands down — were the three student parking spaces...

A former Elk Grove Village library employee who prosecutors said befriended and then sexually abused a teenage girl has pleaded guilty to a felony in the case against him, according to court files. Robert Thulin, 65, of Roselle, made a blind plea of guilty to one count of aggravated criminal sexual...

Howard West came to Aurora City Hall a few days ago to say he was disappointed. It's a forum the lifelong Auroran has rarely if ever used, but he came this time to share his disappointment — not in the fact that an organization had applied for an LGBT pride parade in the city, or that members of...

Mia Palumbo's history-making run will continue to the final day of the wrestling season. Palumbo, the Richards freshman who on Thursday became the first girl to win a match in the 80-year history of the IHSA wrestling state meet, went 1-1 Friday at the State Farm Center to reach Saturday's Class...

A student threat against Streamwood High School posted in a boys restroom was determined to be unfounded but prompted extra police presence at the school Friday, officials said. The threat at the school, which is part of School District U46, was discovered Thursday in the stall of a restroom on...

Mike Glasder and Kevin Bickner of the Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove have qualified for Saturday's large hill ski jump competition at the Olympic Games in South Korea. Glasder finished 38th and Bickner finished 35th in the qualification round held Friday night at the Alpensia Ski Jump Stadium...

High school teachers in West Chicago avoided a strike when a tentative contract agreement was reached with school officials late Thursday. “We’re very pleased that we were able to get to a resolution,” Community High School District 94 Board of Education President Gary Saake said Friday. “I don’t...

Crown Point junior Evan Holland knew he had to get over the hump at the Lake Central Sectional. Several humps, in fact. Expectations were high for a third straight trip to state, but Holland also knew the regular season had not been up to his standards. Holland hit all the right notes Saturday,...

Lockport's Bailey Delrose didn't get the medal she wanted Saturday, but she came away with one final great memory in a senior season filled with them. Delrose totaled 2,594 pins over 12 games, a 216.2 average, to finish third in the bowling state meet at The Cherry Bowl in Rockford. It was the...

Scores and highlights may be emailed to southtownsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. SUNDAY'S EVENTS LOCAL COLLEGES BASEBALL St. Francis at Cumberland (Tenn.) (DH), noon WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Gogebic (Mich.) at South Suburban, 1 p.m. SOFTBALL...

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Nikolas Cruz was immature, quirky and depressed when James and Kimberly Snead took him into their Parkland home. But he was pleasant and seemed to be growing happier, they said. How the 19-year-old turned into a killer still baffles them. “We had this monster living under our roof and we didn’t...

With Bridgeport draped in blue Saturday to honor slain Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer, the city laid the fallen officer to rest with stories of his selflessness and harsh words for the man charged with his murder. Thousands attended the funeral at Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church, where the...

The convicted felon charged in the killing of Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer stood silently Thursday as Cook County prosecutors detailed how the 31-year department veteran was shot six times in the head, neck, torso, back and wrist. Prosecutors also revealed that three civilian witnesses identified...

Adam Rippon put his hands over his face and let the cheers wash over. He waved and smiled, and when the crowd kept clapping, he jumped where he stood and swung his arms to egg them on. Ever the showman, and with his trademark grace and flair, Rippon took his final skate of the Pyeongchang Olympics...

The NBA All-Star Game added spice to its 67th edition by allowing the captains to pick their teams. Team LeBron vs. Team Steph has replaced the traditional East-West format, shuffling allegiances and turning antagonists into uneasy teammates. But with the world's best basketball players all converging...

Not long after Marat Mindiyarov started working at the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll factory indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, he began hearing about the coveted "Facebook Department." There, workers could earn more money and work alongside a younger, hipper crowd....

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When an exemplary police officer like Cmdr. Paul Bauer is buried, Chicago binds itself in a liturgy of grief. Pageantry comes with it, from the bagpipes echoing in the gangways of the two-flats near the church, the eulogies, the public tears of politicians, the rows and rows of officers from departments...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential run in 2020, even broaching the possibility during a recent gathering of longtime foreign policy aides. Huddled in his newly opened office steps from the U.S. Capitol, Biden began a planning meeting for his new diplomacy center by...

Three Cook County Jail detainees who applauded as the suspect in Cmdr. Paul Bauer's killing was escorted from his first court hearing have been reprimanded and moved downstate after the incident, jail officials said. The three men were transferred to the Jefferson County Jail in Mt. Vernon sometime...

On Sunday, Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer and his family took their usual seats in the front pew at a West Loop chapel, where police officers gather twice a month to pray for fallen comrades and to support the ones still protecting Chicago’s streets. The Bauers were such regulars at the casual,...

The young man got out of an Uber, wearing school colors. He had on a maroon polo shirt with the logo of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagles on the sleeve. He was carrying a black backpack and a long black bag. He was walking - "purposefully," a police report would later say - toward...

"Black Panther" has burst onto the screen in Africa, handing a powerful response to the unfortunate remarks about the continent by President Donald Trump. As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local isiXhosa language used in the film's Wakanda kingdom,...

So far this year, there have been at least seven school shootings in the United States. That's more than one a week, more school shootings than many countries have ever had. Last month, for example, a 15-year-old killed two of his peers (and injured 18 others) at his high school in Kentucky. This...

The Bears are nearly six weeks removed from hiring coach Matt Nagy and the calendar is moving quickly for them to put into place plans for the rebuild of the rebuild. The NFL scouting combine begins Feb. 28 in Indianapolis and unlike last year, it doesn’t lead directly into the “legal tampering”...

Don’t feel bad if you’re mystified by what’s going on with the Trump-Russia investigations. There’s a blizzard of misinformation out there. But if you read this, you’ll have a grip. Q. What’s being investigated? A. Any connections between the Russian government and people connected with Donald...

Cook County Jail officials said they planned to take action after several inmates clapped as the suspected killer of Cmdr. Paul Bauer was escorted from his first court hearing on Thursday. Jail officials said they were going to forward video of the "despicable" action by up to five inmates to prosecutors...

Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill criminalizing the mention of Polish complicity in the Nazi-led...

Florida's child welfare agency investigated the suspect in a school shooting that killed 17 people after he cut himself in a video but found him stable, according to state records. The Miami Herald obtained records from Florida's Department of Children and Families and reported Saturday that Nikolas...

Politico reports: "Jared Kushner, a White House aide and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, appears to have drawn more money out of three separate lines of credit in the months after he joined the White House last year, a newly released document shows. "Recent revisions to the financial disclosure...

As much of the country was gripped Wednesday by horrific images from the mass shooting at a Florida high school, two dozen senior Trump administration officials worked frantically into the night to thwart what they considered a different national security threat. The looming danger on the minds...

Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer had just parked his car near City Hall for a meeting with aldermen Tuesday when the call of a drug suspect fleeing the police crackled over his radio. It was a routine call – the type that the 31-year veteran had undoubtedly handled hundreds of times in his career....

"Black Panther," Marvel's African-oriented comic book adaptation, is shaping up to be the most successful movie at the box office ever for a film with a primarily black cast. And it's raising hopes for a new wave of broad-interest commercial films featuring black actors and stories. "That a predominantly...